I remember he posted that he wasn't a Nazi, but felt obligated to post under the flag because he was a reactionary Maurrassian Integralist at the time. I also recall seeing him posting in favor of Deng in recent times. Strange fellow, he is.

The second best era of /leftypol/ (mid to late 2017) had a ton of entertaining, for right and wrong reasons, namefags. Naziposter, Hoochie Minh, Afroplasm, Howard Scott, all of them were inescapable parts of the /leftypol/ experience and it was a great place to be. The best era of /leftypol/ was late 2015 to mid 2016. It sucks that you can only appreciate these moments in hindsight.

The dialectics were in full swing during the so called "golden era", and we currently happen to be in a period of building tension in capitalism, wher it's just laying the foundations for a greater movement.

This is evidenced by shit like Brazil electing Bolsonaro, the Democrat Cops of America, and socdems geting cucked, and radicalizing after Bernie was dunked on, and even the fucking Irish republicans resuming marches, and shit.

This is going to make the Charlottsesville auto show look like peanuts, when the depression hits

The board has lost so much of its subculture that it's painful. That being said, I think it's preferable now compared to the point of about 300ish unique posters, where Twitterfags and really retarded tripfags (yuiposter, reddit obesity, A.W) would constantly defend and circlejerk over one another and use the board solely as a grounds to lie about their knowledge.

Yeah, sure but the traffic on the board is much slower and I can’t say the user base is much better now than it was then. Early leftypol was funny and creative as hell but the theoretical knowledge was low tbh. There was never really a true golden era—even the times that were the most fun were filled with out of control shitposting. We only briefly managed a period before things really blew up where you could balance fun, free speech and in-depth dialogue. I think your right tho, this board is limping along until it’s almost inevitable death. If it does survive till 2020 then I think there could be a potential revival.

Howard Scott is the only tripfag I do not miss. His meme-tier opinions changed monthly and he was terrible at defining and debating them. One week he claimed he was in favour of delegation from the grassroots, the next he was basically claiming to support a totalitarian state where only "smart people" can rule. Dude was a fucking tard.

Hoochie was a great meatshield against /pol/, she would constantly counter-bait with race and gender - considering she was really just a Vietnamese ethno-nationalist embracing second wave feminism.

Naziposter had some cool but unsourced rants and brought back some genuine old image board culture. Him coming out as a Dengist was probably an act of desperation, considering his own ideology doesn't exist (NRx) and communism has a bleak outlook these days.

Howard Scott was a retard autist on A.W. tier. His application for BO was the most cringey shit I've seen.

Afroplasm was a genuine nice guy and I miss him even if his content was lacking. He still shitposts on Twitter and YouTube by dissing Muke, under the name or "Pridetoons" if I believe.

We've had our ups and downs, but the continuous sperging about people needing to read on this board is what actually got my ass into gear reading theory. No other socialist internet space really pushed me to that before, and I used to hang out on Revleft as far back as 2008.

So thanks leftypol, for saving me from wikipedia tier theory. For that reason alone I consider this the best socialist internet space, even with its ups and downs.

>For those that remember him, he was unironically the best poster to ever grace this board.

t. been here for about a year

naziposter was a quality effortposter but by no means some paragon or the best the board had. Just off the top of my head we had a Stalinstache and even a trot who wrote high-quality effortposts debunking anti-soviet myths and about soviet agriculture and trade unionism back two year ago. Naziposter did some good holocaust-denial debunking and made /pol/yps mad but that's it tbh

I must thank you comrades for making me read. Since elementary I was a brainlet who couldn't keep attention on a paper for more than 3 seconds. It was impossible for me to read a book and I never did before I visited leftypol. Cockshott gang made me even a bit interested in math.

So thanks leftypol for curing my brainletism to an extent and reading my blogpost.

/leftypol/ rescued me in 2015 from becoming a fucking sargonite. Prior to lp, I'd been nothing but an edgy mouthed socdem since 2008, now I'm reading Marx and unironically want to put capitalists in a gulag.

They were by far the most academic and productive months of this boards existence as the benevolent M-L majority (typified by posters such as Ismail back before he went off the deep end) of that time was both relatively well read and open to debate and discussion with those of other anti-capitalist ideologies (hence why this board even has a Technocrat user flag).

Unfortunately this was not an acceptable state of affairs for the left-coms and especially the anarchists who went on a self serving campaign to 'grow the influence' of this board.

This was done by essentially advertising this place to other left-coms and anarchists on reddit, revleft and other such places.

This resulted in a flood of left-com and anarchists posters that drove off much of the original M-Ls (hence the existence of /marx/) and introduced the dual spectres of id-pol and anti-intellectualism that this board is still fighting a losing battle against.

Ever since this 'anarchist invasion' as I have come to regard it, this board has been on an overall downward trajectory.

The golden age of namefags back during 2015-2016 was a welcome reprieve from the decline and gave newer users an all too brief glimpse at a shadow of what this board was once like.

That is all over now however.

At this point I doubt this place will see 2020.

It has fully succumb to the eternal September of unassimilable reprobates and user turnover.

As few here bothered to check the trips, these posts were accepted as genuine regardless of the fact they were not my own.

Despite being the last user standing from the golden age of namefags, this general lack of awareness from amongst what had become of this boards population is what finally killed off my interest in posting here.

Over the years that I have been posting here, my positions have seldom changed.

With the largest change being an aesthetic shift from using the term 'Technocrat' to now using the term 'Stratocrat'.

To be perfectly clear.

I am a Totalitarian and Stratocracy is a proudly Totalitarian ideology.

The appointment system used by Stratocracy does empower those on the 'shop floor' to some degree however I would never describe such empowerment as from the 'grassroots'.

In my time here I have also been militantly against the misconception that Technocracy was an ideology that advocated for a state ruled by engineers, scientists or the otherwise highly educated; The post you read that suggested this was likely by an imposter.

I remember a thread where he declared that he realized that he had already won because the Left was discrediting itself and that we were really doing his work by just being ourselves.

I miss him and the other Norwegian cuckposter though…

Even Milo. He was a good laugh. I enjoyed all the Stirnerposters who triggered him constantly. He started posting bullsharks for a while and then he left not long after that.

Nazi Satan poster was quite a ride as well, although I suspect that she was some kind of Schizo. The accusations of being jewish magicians was fun, and pretending to be her in threads and posting tits would rile her up like nothing else.

You are all outlandishly stupid if you believe that namefags made /leftypol/ great.

Howard Scott and co. are just an example of crystalized human dumbassery. In a normal person, they hide their disgusting proclivities until they are acted upon by outside forces like a leader or a natural disaster. In a namefag, you have a dumbass who has been acted upon by the internet. They have a functionally limitless ability to delude themselves, and they have a functionally endless amount of people to egg them on.

Every stupid ideology inevitably creates these ideological supersoldiers that are so hopped up on fucked up ideas and a need for something unobtainable that they can not help but attempt to express the farthest, most extreme, utmost, progressed form of ideology. By sheer unreplicable probability, they are the vessels for every fetid drop of an idea that has ever spilled from some idiots skull. They are a funhouse mirror of everything wrong with the human mind.

This is total bullshit, the board was thriving and then the one big US military base in Syria ban and subsequent ban and anchor happy mid stage killed all the momentum. Having g anarchists and reactionaries here was good, good for honing ideology

Have you ever had that weird feeling where you read your own obituary?

>Best poster on the board

Hardly. It mostly just started of as a joke, and because no one at the time (other than hoochie) seemed to understand how to make pol/yp/s mad.

That said, I've been gone mostly because I was fed up with BO. Trigger-hair bans for 'imperialism' what? are one thing, but if even a track record of consistent anti-imperialism doesn't protect you from that, then what is the point?

Besides. There just aren't a lot of nazis around these days anymore. And it's an old shtick at this point.

BO just only ever comes on once or twice a week, hands out several bans to anyone who even mentions maduro or venezuela and leaves again. The moderation hasn't so much eased off as become sparser, from the BO at least.

Remember those few fights between Howard and afroplasm. That shit was entertaining. Personally I never had that much of a problem with howard. My autism looks negligible next to his, and there was usually some effort put into his posts.

We don´t miss these personalities because they made this board great. We miss the times they used to post here because we miss the general state of the board back then. To be fully nostalgic means that you miss a thing, every aspect/ side of it. Whether it was good or bad doesn´t matter to you anymore. Most people here dont idolize the people they miss, whether they actually liked them isn´t important. They whish for that time to return, so they miss the people they encounterd ind that time and experienced with them. Usually Namefags are disliked, because they give up on their anonymity. But since they aren´t anonymous, you kind of know them as person after a while (or atleast a certain aspect or side of their personality.). They were part of the board when it was at that state, miss that state, people get somewhat nostalgic, people end up missing them. Man I wish it was 2015 again… good night everyone.